Ok so I'm just being a smart-alleck but today was quite funny. I went into my local game store to check on xbox 360 availability and fiddle around some more on thier demo model they have in store. There was some poor guy (ok not poor in the $ sense he WAS after all....) buying an xbox 360 for his kids shelling out money for the system and then shelling out even more money for accessories and then shelling out more money for what he had planned on being one or two games and thier related startegy guides. Then his kids saw me playing call of duty 2 on the xbox 360 demo and they became hypnotized as I went through blasting enemy soldiers and such. They began "o0o0o0ohing and awwwing" while I layed waste to soldier after soldier. The oldest of the two kids was I'd guess about 14-15 years old (boy) and he was asking me if I played alot of first person shooters and how I got so good yadda yadda yadda. (Kind of boosted my ego but then again who cares what others think of how good you are unless they are shooting at you, right? LOL) I told him I game online quite abit and with my friends in split screen alot. I told him about XBC and gave him my user name there and invited him to come get shot up some day. He got all excited and then proceeded to beg his dad for Call of Duty 2 in a most annoying manner. "Dad you gotta get me this game! This guys REALLY GOOD and if he's playing it it must be good!" (again blah blah blah) What he didn't realize is, sure COD 2 looks like it'll be a good game but the real reason I was playing it is it was the only FPS available on the demo. What I'd really have wanted to play wouyld have been Ghost recon 3 Advanced Warrior, but sadly thats not coming out for awhile. Basically what I'm trying to get at is, I was responsible forThe Game Makers of Call Of Duty 2 selling another game since I was unwittingly thier "salesman" by demoing the game, so...where's my $ ? LMAO j/k

I have just gotten my Xbox hooked back up to Xbox Connect again and the other night my friend came over to my house and saw me playing our usual favorite game (Ghost recon2) online in a 8 vs. 8 Team match. It was pretty funny, at first he had no idea I was playing online. He kept asking me how I was playing the vs. mode without anyone. He thought my team and the other team were all AI. I just kept blasting people, laughing to myself. Then he heard some voice from out of no where, like a "Voice of God" of sorts. The voice was barking orders "On your left!....Flank Right!......Grenade! Fall Back!" Thats when it finally sunk in. He started freaking out. "Oh my GOD your playing online! I want in! I want in! Get my profile into this game and plug me in!" As you can imagine I couldn't take much of that so I let the people I was gaming with know that I had another player who wanted in and as luck would have it, 3 of the players were planning on going anyhow. I told them I had to get my console set up so his usuall profile was in and we would be split screen. When we returned we had an AWESOME game of 7 vs. 7 and my friend and I were on the same team. It was pretty cool as we both knew how the other played since we play alot of co-op missions together so we worked really well as a two man killing force for our 7 man team. the two of us ended up having the highest stats of our team consistantly. Needless to say my friend was instantly hooked even more on Gaming at my house. He went from playing the occasional game of Ghost Recon 2 with me to getting mildly addicted playing regularly every weekend. But now that he has experienced online play, he's been over everyday playing for like 3-4 hours. We have a total blast but I can't help but feel a little bad for feeding his addiction. His wife called him this last gaming session and I could hear her yelling at him on his cell phone. LOL I had to tell him maybe he should game in moderation. We both had a good laugh at that and fired up another game.

The Ghost Recon Series is still the best FPS in my humble oppinion. Although I just got Conflict Global Terror and that is turning out to be a close second. I am a FPS maniac. I prefer the FPS games based loosely on reality more than the fantasy ones like Halo, Halo2 etc. Don't get me wrong I still like those types as well but nothing beats the gratifying feeling of spitting hot lead at my friends during Multi-Player mode as my controller rumbles to the sound of realistic gunfire as it BOOMS over my home theatre stereo set up. Lazers and such just aren't the same. LOL